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Bookmark or Share- The EF Scale and Asphalt Scouring Caused by the March 2 Henryville TornadoIn his chase stats for 2012, fellow chaser Simon Brewer notes that the March 2 Henryville tornado caused " damage to a highway southwest of Henryville peeling and tossing large 6-10 inch thick slabs of asphalt, some weighing around 10,000 lbs, 30-50 meters creating large and deep impact craters." Because of the severity of the damage, Simon has ...
- 1925-03-18 Tri-State Tornado damage aerial footage | Stormtrack3,258. Location. St. Louis. Mar 24, 2024. #1. Did you know there was a large amount of *aerial* footage shot of the Tri-State tornado damage from what appears to be a biplane in Murphysboro and De Soto, Illinois? Some Greensburg- and Joplin-esque scenes. I hadn't seen this before.
- Radar-Sampled versus Damage-Estimated Wind Speeds in Tornadoes3,789. Location. Denver, CO. Yesterday at 12:28 PM. #1. Introduced by Mike Smith in another thread, this recent publication presents an analysis of wind speeds in tornadoes estimated by mobile Doppler radar versus the assigned wind speeds using the EF scale. There is a discrepancy in the two!
- Violent Tornado Parameter (VTP) - StormtrackA new paper by Nick Hampshire (NWS EWX), Richard Mosier (SPC), Ted Ryan (NWS FWD), and Dennis Cavanaugh (NWS LZK) entitled "Relationship of Low-Level Instability and Tornado Damage Rating Based on Observed Soundings" has been published in the Journal of Operational Meteorology. It is an...
- Tornadoes that should have been rated F5/EF5 - StormtrackThe aim of the science of using the (enhanced) Fujita scale to rate tornadoes is to estimate the wind speeds in the tornado by sampling damage produced by the tornado. The obvious issues with the EF scale include 1) there need to be sufficiently strong DIs as to bound the damage produced by the tornado, and 2) the tornado must actually impact DIs.
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